Michael Jackson Quotations

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

I just wish I could understand my father.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

No action or investigation has been taken to determine who is leaking this information or why they are permitted to violate the law in such a manner. I respectfully request that people see these efforts for what they are.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

she prefers them to be with me than with her.

Many organizations were initially scared of the Internet and email. Now there's hardly a workplace on the planet that doesn't have an Internet connection.

Ground water has always been the property of the landowner, with the idea that water can be used for the benefit of the land.

I found myself taking a five-hour bus ride to sample the local beers in Whitefish, Montana,

I have always maintained my innocence, and vehemently denied that these events ever took place. I reluctantly chose to settle the false claims only to end the terrible publicity and to continue with my life and career,

We're in the planning. Classes will start late this year or early next year. We want to train people with viable marketing skills and rudiments in entrepreneurial skills. You learn and apply it however you best need it.

I respect the obligation of confidentiality imposed on all of the parties to the 1993 proceedings,

Please, no! You have to give us some privacy. Please, you have to understand his position, he is with his kids... you need to leave us alone.

Our coaching staff has worked very hard, and so have our players. They dedicated themselves to getting better, and once they developed confidence in themselves and started believing they could win everything just came together.

It is almost a routine thing that they come from time to time to visit their regiments. So we are kind of working on those in the longer term.

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court,

All of Hollywood has plastic surgery. I don't know why they point me out. The press exaggerated it. It's just my nose, you know. They want it to be everything. Just the nose isn't enough.

The Yugoslav delegation presented a proposal that would not guarantee the safe return of all the (ethnic Albanian) refugees (and) the full withdrawal of Yugoslav forces,

to return to Santa Barbara to immediately confront and prove these charges unfounded.

This is an enormously exciting opportunity to grow content businesses that combine the unique capabilities of the internet with the art and science of traditional programming.

I wake up from dreams and go ""Wow, put this down on paper."" The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face . . .

I wake up from dreams and go "Wow, put this down on paper." The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face . . .

Clearly, it was an incumbent-protection act, ... Redistricting was indeed a pretty ugly power play.

I look at this as a staff award. It's a good indicator that our staff is doing some of the right things and our kids are responding well to what we have asked them to do.

And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

It pains me to watch the human suffering taking place in the gulf region of my country. I will be reaching out to others within the music industry to join me in helping to bring relief and hope to these resilient people who have lost everything.

I trusted Martin Bashir to come into my life and that of my family because I wanted the truth to be told,

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

I clear $180 a month. It's the highest-paying job in the compound.

How the mighty fall. It really is the final straw for this guy. Just when you think things can't get any worse, he holds his baby out of a window. It's actually quite unbelievable. I suppose he'll blame Sony for that, as well.

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.

My mission is healing, pure and simple.

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

I promise to love and cherish each of my sweet-faced fans forever

Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.

I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.

We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.

I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic.

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that he said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children and to make yourself as innocent and to see the world through eyes of wonderment and the whole magical quality of it all.

Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

You never know how long you have with someone, so don’t forget to say I love you while you can.

Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.

And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face... and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then why do we keep strangling life wound this Earth, crucify its soul. Though it's plain to see, this world is heavenly. We could be God's glow... Heal the world.

Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Dont be looking at all the other things. Start with you

You can always dream, and your dreams can come true. But you have to make them come true

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.