Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.