It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I think the word rich is all relative.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

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.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

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.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.