A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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

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

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I write all of my own speeches.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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

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.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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?

Love is only one of many passions.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Love is trembling happiness.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Speak low, if you speak love.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I don’t like being alone.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

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.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

In married life three is company and two none.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

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