Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

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.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

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

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

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

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

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.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

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.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

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

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.