To be social is to be forgiving.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I’m not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

What one fool can understand, another can.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

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.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

I mean, families are weird.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Like associates with like.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

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

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Language is the dress of thought.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

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

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Silence is safer than speech.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.