The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

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.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Little things affect little minds.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Choose people who lift you up.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.