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

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Silence is safer than speech.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

You can stroke people with words.

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

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

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

I can express myself.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.