We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

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.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

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

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I dote on his very absence.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

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.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

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.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.