Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

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.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

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

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.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

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.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

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

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I was adored once too.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

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.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

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.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

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.

He who hath many friends hath none.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

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

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.