Usher

I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she’ll care for me.

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

I’ve been working so hard, I’m about to have a Mariah Carey.

I’m a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

My life is a struggle.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one’s own homestead.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

First and foremost, it’s going to be treat others with respect. Be polite: Manners go a long way. Try to come from a good place. And aside from that, stay focused and do the right thing.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.