People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

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

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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

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

You can only have one aim per debate.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

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.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

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!

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.