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.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

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

Women. They are a complete mystery.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Friends are thieves of time.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.