I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

I think a law clerk told me about this tumblr and also explained to me what Notorious RBG was a parody on. And now my grandchildren love it, and I try to keep abreast of the latest that’s on the tumblr.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

In every parting there is an image of death.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.