Understanding is a two-way street.

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

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Love is a state of being.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

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

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I never fall in love.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

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

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

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

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

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

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

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.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

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

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.