It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

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

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

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 think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

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

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.