Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

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.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

If you would judge, understand.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

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’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

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

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.