Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

I have been – I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say ‚you know‘ more than 200 times in an interview with the New York ‚Daily News,‘ and on 130 occasions while talking to ‚The New York Times‘ during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I’m not an improv guy. I’m a writer-guy who presents what he’s written.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

I am two with nature.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I’m saying, and I track it.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

At first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

No violent extreme endures.