To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

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

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

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.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

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

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

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

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.