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

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

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

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

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

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.

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

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

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Love is trembling happiness.

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

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

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.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

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.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

I love life because what more is there?

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Honolulu is a melting pot.