Understanding is a two-way street.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

I don’t write letters anymore.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

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

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

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

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

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.