The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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

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

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

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

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I give the children education.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

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

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

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

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

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.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

We will always be a family. Always.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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