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.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

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.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

We never love a person, but only qualities.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

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

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.