My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

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

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

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

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

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

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

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

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

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.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Single life is so overrated.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

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

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.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Tell the children the truth.