We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

To innovate is not to reform.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

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

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I’m an only child.

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.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

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

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

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

I always wanted to be loved.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.