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

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Children make your life important.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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

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 are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

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!

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

If music be the food of love, play on.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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.

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

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

I love Brad in every state.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

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

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

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.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

We will always be a family. Always.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.