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

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Men want to make women happy.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

You can only have one aim per debate.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.