We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

I like to feel blonde all over.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

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

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

My friends, there are no friends.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

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?

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

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

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

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.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.