A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work – that’s Prince to me.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‚Get On Your Boots.‘ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

A promise must never be broken.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. ‚When Doves Cry,‘ the whole ‚Purple Rain‘ soundtrack – he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt ‚House of Balloons‘ was.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

I want to produce the music to a movie that I’m working on, like what Prince did with ‚Purple Rain.‘

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Better a broken promise than none at all.