I don’t like people going behind my back.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

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.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

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

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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.

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

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

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

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

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