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.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

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

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

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

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.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

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.

All you need is love.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.