No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

How can we help President Obama?

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

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

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

You are victors, not victims!

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

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

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.