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.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

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.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

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

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

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

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

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

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

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

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

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.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

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.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.