I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Football is all about fans.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Children make your life important.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Intimates are predestined.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I love life because what more is there?

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

We will always be a family. Always.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Great loves too must be endured.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

Love is only one of many passions.