Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

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

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

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.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

I mean, families are weird.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

What you guys want, I’m for.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

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.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

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

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.