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

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

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

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

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.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

I was adored once too.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

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.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

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.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.