If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

I mean, families are weird.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

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.‘

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

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

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

You can’t trust very many people.