“Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.”

Friends are nations in themselves.

I tasted life.

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

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Hope never stops at all.

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

Put your lips to mine and believe in love again.

Heard you told him that you’d love him ’til the end of time. Now that’s the same thing that you told me.

I’m from New York and I love New York and I’m always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

Love has no walk of shame.

Feels like forever, seems like yesterday.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience.

That nothing’s so sacred as honor and nothing’s so loyal as love.”