The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

An honest man is always a child.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Men want to make women happy.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

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.

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.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I don’t like being alone.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

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

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

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

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.