Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

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.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Who, being loved, is poor?

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

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

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

The heart is forever inexperienced.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

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

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

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

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

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