Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I love being a dad. I just love it.

Fear is real, but so is love.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

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.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.