Speak low, if you speak love.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

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

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Debates, I hate.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

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.

What you guys want, I’m for.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I always wanted a family.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.