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

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

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.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Friends are thieves of time.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

I’m not a centerfold.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

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.