Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

War is what happens when language fails.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

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.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

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

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

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

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

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

Tell the children the truth.

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

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

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

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.