I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

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.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

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.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

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

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Be not a slave of words.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn’t allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn’t do anything with my classmates.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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.

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

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.