Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

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

Never find fault with the absent.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Money can’t buy life.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

He who is contented is rich.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Life well spent is long.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

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.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Every loss of life is terrible.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.