Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

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

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I was adored once too.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

In married life three is company and two none.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‚O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.‘ And God granted it.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Speak low, if you speak love.