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.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Love is a state of being.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

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

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

We will always be a family. Always.

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.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

All mankind love a lover.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

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

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

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

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

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.