I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

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

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

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.

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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

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

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.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

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

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Men want to make women happy.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.