My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I know love is the answer.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Nobody’s indispensable.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I never fall in love.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

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.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

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

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

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

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Your friend is your needs answered.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.