The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

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

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Men want to make women happy.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

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

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

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

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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?

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

The more you know the less you need to say.