Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.