Before I speak, I have something important to say.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

I write all my sermons.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

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

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

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

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

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.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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

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.

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.

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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Tell the children the truth.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.