It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

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

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

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

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

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

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.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

If you wished to be loved, love.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.