It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Some guys look better as they get older.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

There is so much that people take for granted.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I’m a can-do girl.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

I still think I am the greatest.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.