Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

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.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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

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.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘