I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

I was adored once too.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

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

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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 move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

My friends are my estate.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

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

No one loves the man whom he fears.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.