The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

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.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

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

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

The human heart is the same the world over.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

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

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

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.