We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

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

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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

A true man hates no one.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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.