The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

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

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

What you are comes to you.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I never make conscious decisions.

Travel teaches toleration.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

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

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.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Only the insecure strive for security.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

Intimates are predestined.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Love is a state of being.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.