Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Intimates are predestined.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Smiles are the language of love.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

All you need is love.

There is no education like adversity.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.