I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

My grandpa was a preacher.

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.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

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.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.