Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I always wanted to be loved.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

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.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

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.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I know love is the answer.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

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

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

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.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

I’m cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.