I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

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

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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.‘

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

They do not love that do not show their love.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

I can express myself.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I don’t write letters anymore.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.