Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

One must steer, not talk.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

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.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

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

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Debates, I hate.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

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

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Let my enemies devour each other.