It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

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

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

You can’t trust very many people.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

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.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I mean, families are weird.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

In the real world, children love me.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

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.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

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.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

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