Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

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.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Speak low, if you speak love.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

Love is the one wild card.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

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.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

Where thou art, that is home.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.