My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Disagreement is something normal.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

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

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

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.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

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.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

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.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

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.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

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

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Friends are thieves of time.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I want to be Robin to Bush’s Batman.

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

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.