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

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Debates, I hate.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

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

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

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

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

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

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

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

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

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.