The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

My mother did not like children.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.