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

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Game’s always been open arms with me.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

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

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

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.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

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

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I dote on his very absence.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.