I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I’m very protective.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Anonymous comments? You’re not in the arena, man. If you can’t say it to me in person in front of my kids, don’t say it.

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.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I think what we’ve found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we’re really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

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

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

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

I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says ‚Hi‘ during the day.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I feel like I’m being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I’m upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo’s outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody’s peeping.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that’s true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.