Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Hatred is self-punishment.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I grew up in a funny way.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Words are loaded pistols.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

War is what happens when language fails.

If you can talk, you can write.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

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.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Football is a sad game.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.