I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

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.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

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

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

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

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

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

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.