I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Game’s always been open arms with me.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.