I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

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

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

Some guys look better as they get older.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

All you need is love.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

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

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

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.

Friends are thieves of time.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

I rely on other people every day of my life.