Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

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

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.