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

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

The less you know, the more you believe.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

You can stroke people with words.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Men want to make women happy.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

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.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

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

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.