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

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

When I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

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.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Young people can create beautiful things.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

We will always be a family. Always.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

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

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.