Quotes about Engagement

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

I'm going to ask you to do something that may feel even more painful: when you get close to becoming engaged, put any public announcement on delay for a few weeks and spend several sessions talking through all these issues again with someone else present.

When we live for ourselves, we become boring. Most of us are simply not interesting enough on our own to captivate someone else for five or six decades.

Start these conversations with questions that seek understanding, not with accusations that seek submission.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Never enter into spiritual combat lightly. We must engage the enemy only under the direction and protection of God because victory by human means is impossible.

First, earn the right to get their attention; then show them Jesus — perhaps not with words but always with action.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.