Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

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

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

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

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

I know love is the answer.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

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

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

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

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.