I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I can’t go out with a Republican.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.