Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

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?

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

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

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

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.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

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.‘

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.