Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.