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 define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

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

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

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.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

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

All you need is love.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

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

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.