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

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

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.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

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.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

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

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Marriage is the death of hope.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

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.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

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

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.