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

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Let the path be open to talent.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Learn to think continentally.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

All men hate the nagging.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.