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

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

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.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

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.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

We must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.