Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Intimates are predestined.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

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

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

General consultant to mankind.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

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

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

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.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.