The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

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

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

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

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

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.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

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

The way I talk is bizarre.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

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