Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Philosophy is the highest music.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Words are loaded pistols.

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.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

All mankind love a lover.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.