I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

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.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Understanding is a two-way street.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I love women with attitude.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.