Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Take my wife… Please!

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

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

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

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’m typically single. I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I’m not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.