The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

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

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

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

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

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

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.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

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

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

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

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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

I love the sea.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

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.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

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

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

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

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Life loves the liver of it.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!