No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

My wife and I love each other very much.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

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.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Love is a state of being.

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

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

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

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

Love can do much, but duty more.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

I always wanted to be loved.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Because I’m not in a record deal, I don’t have to operate in an album format.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Rock music is niche.