The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

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’ve laid my friends bare.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I just want to be myself.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

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

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

I always wanted to be loved.

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

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

My whole life is a theater piece.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Genius is patience.

Over the years I’ve met quite a few big rappers. Then it exploded with 50 Cent, and I did a book with him. It’s always a strange meeting of two worlds, it’s very exciting.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I don’t regret anything.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.