When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

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.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

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

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

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 I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.