I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

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

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

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

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

I write all of my own speeches.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.