You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

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!

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Smiles are the language of love.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.