We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.