Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

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

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

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.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

We do not judge the people we love.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

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

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.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.