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

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

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

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I’m a people pleaser. 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.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

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

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

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

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.