All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I mean, families are weird.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn’t the case.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

Success is not a stop sign.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

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 want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Genius is patience.

Well begun is half done.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.