Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

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

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

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.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

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.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Smiles are the language of love.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

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.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

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

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Tell the children the truth.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.