A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

If you can talk, you can write.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

All men hate the nagging.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.