Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

A yawn is a silent shout.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

In oratory the will must predominate.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.