A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

All you need is love.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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 feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

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

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Africa will thrive.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

We all have done something unethical.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

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

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.