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

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

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.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

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.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Children make your life important.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.