The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

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

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

They do not love that do not show their love.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

God to me is love.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

I just want to keep writing music.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

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

If you give, you will be blessed.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

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