We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

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

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

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.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

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.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

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

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Marriage is the death of hope.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I’m a free spirit.

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

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

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

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

More law, less justice.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

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