Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

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

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

For 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.

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.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Men want to make women happy.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

All you need is love.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

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

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.