Don't just be in the business and have fun 'cause you're a kid. You've gotta learn; this is your livelihood.

When you get a man, you have to nurture him. Treat him like a king. If you put that little work in in the beginning, it pays off.

Family's always first. God and family, and I go from there.

I'm always giving out advice. People always come to me for that.

Some days I'll be like, "You know what? Why don't I go to my daughter's studio and make a song?!" And then I don't! I don't know if I would have all the time it takes to put into a song.

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

If you need to know courage then you personally is the courage you discovered by yourself, try harder things and it will show up.

She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

Success is not measured by who you are, only by the perception of what others think you are

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.

To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.