I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Language is the dress of thought.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

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.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

True friends stab you in the front.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

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 want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

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

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

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.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

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

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.