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?

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

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

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

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 am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Study men, not historians.

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

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

A letter does not blush.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I write all of my own speeches.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.