I said, “Juvenile delinquents eat chocolate cake, so chocolate cake must cause juvenile delinquency,” but nobody listened to me. I wasn’t on TV.

Gossip [is] the Devil's radio: Don't be a broadcaster.

if there is listening through a “listener,” then we are not listening.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

The most influential people in my life will never show up on a Google search.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Nobody speaks to me. People fall in love with me, and annoy me and distress me and flatter me and excite me and — and all that sort of thing. But no one speaks to me. I sometimes think that no one can. Can you?

we can tune out the Holy Spirit’s whispers and become oblivious to His communication with us.

What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you.

I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.

If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.