True friends stab you in the front.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Live truth instead of professing it.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

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 mean, families are weird.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

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 am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

It’s not possible to stop love.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.