The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

I can express myself.

Single life is so overrated.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

I was adored once too.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

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

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.