People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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 you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

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

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

I never fall in love.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

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.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

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

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

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.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!