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

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

I write all of my own speeches.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

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.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

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

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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

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.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

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

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘