Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

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

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Where there is love there is life.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

My mother did not like children.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

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

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

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.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

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.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

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.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn’t even notice.

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.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

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

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.