When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

They do not love that do not show their love.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.