Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert HubbardFor years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma BombeckEvery spoken word arouses our self-will.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
Adam SandlerWhat sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAffection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. LewisI used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.
Kevin GatesI think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.
Richard BransonLife cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe 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.
Adam SandlerThe mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.
The WeekndLove is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
George BestWhen a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar WildeIf one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl JungYou know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘
Joe BidenIt’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.
Christopher HitchensI 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.
Christopher HitchensWhen people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
Kevin HartI am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LeBron JamesAs iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King SolomonRelationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Brian TracyA woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.
Marilyn MonroeIt is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
Alexander Graham BellIf you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Robert Baden-PowellYou bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.
Alice WalkerThe more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Vincent Van GoghI have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.
Joe BidenThe royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale CarnegieWe’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
Jordan PetersonPeople often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!
Richard P. FeynmanTen people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon BonaparteAt times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert SchweitzerFathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar WildeI have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.
DrakeI’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
Anthony HopkinsMy dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
Jim CarreyAll of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
Mark ZuckerbergMarriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Jerry SeinfeldI try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel OsteenMy family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
Alice WalkerWhat makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jocko WillinkBy giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.
Mark ZuckerbergA family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.
Kamala HarrisForgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert FrostI’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.
Stephen CurryI still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.
David BowieI always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
Kendrick LamarHe that sows thorns should never go barefoot.
Benjamin FranklinAll good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
John C. MaxwellBe polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas JeffersonI do not raise brats!
Abby Lee MillerIn my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody AllenWe can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
Joyce MeyerThe best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.
Brene BrownGood leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.
John C. MaxwellI like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.
Michelle ObamaWhen we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel JohnsonI’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.
Kanye WestI learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.
Abraham Lincoln