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

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

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

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Love is trembling happiness.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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

War is what happens when language fails.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.