When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

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

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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.

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 loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

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

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Who, being loved, is poor?

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

I am two with nature.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

All men hate the nagging.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.