“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”

“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”

“I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.”

“You don't want to go to war with a president [...] There's a temptation that you have to fight to tell the president what you think he wants to hear. I’ve seen really good people do that.”

“Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.”

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”

“The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.”

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”

“I hear today's college women are 'prodigious.'"
"Prodigious? Is that what you heard?"
"Well, I read it in a magazine. It was something I wanted to believe."
"The Jayster. Always a dreamer.”