Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

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.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

I’m sticking to the script, I’m putting that organic feeling back in the game.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Be as you wish to seem.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

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.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.