Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

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

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

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

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Language is the dress of thought.

Vanity is but the surface.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

He who hath many friends hath none.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

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.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.