Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

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

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

In oratory the will must predominate.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Words are loaded pistols.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

One must steer, not talk.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Disagreement is something normal.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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

The human heart is the same the world over.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.