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.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

All mankind love a lover.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

To be social is to be forgiving.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Be not a slave of words.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

A letter does not blush.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

We do not judge the people we love.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.