Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Great loves too must be endured.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

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

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

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.

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

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

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.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.