I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

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.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

I always play women I would date.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

I love Brad in every state.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

Common sense is not so common.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

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.