It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

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

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

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.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

I was adored once too.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

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

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Single life is so overrated.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.