It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

I know love is the answer.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

I mean, families are weird.

Of course I get hurt.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I’m an emotional person.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.