People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

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.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

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.

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.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

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.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

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.

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

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

I love food.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

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

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

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.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

It’s important to love in hip hop.