The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Love is the one wild card.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

Be not a slave of words.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Science is nothing but perception.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.