In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

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

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.