Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I like to look good, my friend.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

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

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

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

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.