Madonna: Trending quotes (page 5)

“We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.”

“If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.”

“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”

“It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.”

“Power without guilt, love without doubt….”

“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.”

“Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.”

“Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.”

“Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.”

“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”

“I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.”

“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”

“I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.”

“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”

“Sick and perverted always appeals to me.”

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

“Beauty is where you find it.”

“I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.”

“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”