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It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.
The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
True friends stab you in the front.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.
The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Giving is the most self-satisfying thing you can ever do.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
