Women don’t try to use me.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

If you wished to be loved, love.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I always wanted to be loved.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Character is power.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

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

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I’m not a centerfold.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.