Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

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

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

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.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

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.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

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

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I know love is the answer.