If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Knowledge is true opinion.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

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

Listen to many, speak to a few.

You can only have one aim per debate.