Speak low, if you speak love.

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

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

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

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

What you guys want, I’m for.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

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

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.