Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

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.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Never find fault with the absent.

To be social is to be forgiving.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

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

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

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.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

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.

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.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

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

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The more you know the less you need to say.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

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

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.