The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

I like to look good, my friend.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

You can’t trust very many people.

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

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

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

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

You can stroke people with words.

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.

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

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

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

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I know love is the answer.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.