If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

My fat never made me less money.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

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.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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.

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

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Example is leadership.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I write all of my own speeches.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

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

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.