Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Hatred is self-punishment.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

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.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.