We never love a person, but only qualities.

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.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

We will always be a family. Always.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

My mother did not like children.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

It’s not possible to stop love.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

They do not love that do not show their love.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

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

Life loves the liver of it.

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.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?