May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I mean, families are weird.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

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.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

He who hath many friends hath none.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Smiles are the language of love.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

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

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

We do not judge the people we love.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

No one loves the man whom he fears.