My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

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

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

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

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

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

We love things we love what they are.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.