Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I write all my sermons.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

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 try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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.

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

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

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

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.