A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

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

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.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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

Tell the children the truth.

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

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

Silence is safer than speech.

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

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.