It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

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.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

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

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

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.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

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.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.