If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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.

I don’t like being alone.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I don’t regret anything.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

For me, education was power.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.