One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

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

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

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 have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Better a broken promise than none at all.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

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

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Love is trembling happiness.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

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

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.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.