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

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

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

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Love is trembling happiness.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

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.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Science is nothing but perception.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

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

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

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.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.