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

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

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

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

New roads; new ruts.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Nothing recedes like progress.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

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.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

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

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Let the path be open to talent.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

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

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.