Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham LincolnMarriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Jerry SeinfeldFirst ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale CarnegieI like pushing boundaries.
Lady GagaI used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
Ray BradburyPeople will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.
DJ KhaledMy mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.
Bad BunnyTest a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
ChanakyaChildren are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl JungI’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.
George OrwellThe details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
EminemI’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.
Anthony HopkinsI 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.
Joel OsteenThe only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
Lady GagaGod has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
Dolly PartonI’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.
John LennonAs human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma GandhiI’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
Maya AngelouI don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
Charles BukowskiIf evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EpictetusSometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.
Kevin GatesI remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.
Jocko WillinkI wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil GibranSome of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann HesseIt’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Maya AngelouMy son has died of AIDS.
Nelson MandelaNobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEverything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.
Angelina JoliePlain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine HepburnIt is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Carl JungI claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma GandhiIn poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
AristotlePeople have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.
Stephen CurryI come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma BombeckA man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar WildeFriendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWho’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.
Tom BradyI think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.
Paul AusterI don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.
Matthew McConaugheyI’m not going to stop having problems.
Kevin HartI like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
Joel OsteenThe uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
Brene BrownI find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.
Robert GreeneTo be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
ConfuciusAlimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho MarxIt’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
Lady GagaMost of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.
Jocko WillinkI haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.
Steven WrightMy whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
Matthew McConaugheyI am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
RihannaAll wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
BuddhaYou cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert CamusWe all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.
Kanye WestWhere would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
Bob UeckerTo live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Arthur SchopenhauerLet the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand RussellLove, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert HubbardDividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.
John C. Maxwell