Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

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

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

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

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

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Coffee is a language in itself.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

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

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

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

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

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.

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

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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.