We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

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

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Disagreement is something normal.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.