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

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I like to look good, my friend.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

You can stroke people with words.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.