Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

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

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

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.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

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

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

They do not love that do not show their love.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

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

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Never find fault with the absent.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.