My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

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.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

I’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

I don’t see anything that’s come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

For the chorus of ‚Secrets,‘ we used The Romantics‘ ‚Talking in Your Sleep‘ and ‚Pale Shelter‘ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

I’m very free-spirited.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

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

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.