“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Look at things and listen and feel.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Every day above earth is a good day.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Everything is your fault if you’re any damn good.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Love don’t love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn’t love myself.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I’d love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn’t me, it wasn’t my name.

Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.

She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

It’s nice to have famous people love you.