He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.