Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

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.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

My wife and I love each other very much.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

My friends are my estate.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.