“Don’t leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.”

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Don’t criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

If you’re smart, you’ll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

We can’t build our dreams on suspicious minds.

Tomorrow will be too late, it’s now or never.

If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

Envy someone an’ it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn’t tear us apart.

People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

Friends are people you can talk to, without words when you have to.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other’s arms.

Fear is stronger than arms.

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.