My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Love is trembling happiness.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

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.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

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.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

The way to know life is to love many things.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Intimates are predestined.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Smiles are the language of love.

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

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

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.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.