In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.

Your relationships can only be as healthy as you are.

Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.

I belong everywhere and nowhere, and I alone can save two worlds.

When I turn down the volume, it's amazing how much I can actually hear.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.