I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

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

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Men want to make women happy.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I don’t write letters anymore.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

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

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

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

I don’t like people going behind my back.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

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

My friends are my estate.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

We do not judge the people we love.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

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.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.