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

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

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.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

My friends, there are no friends.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

We will always be a family. Always.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

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

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

There is no love of life without despair of life.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

In the real world, children love me.