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

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

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

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

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

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

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.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Tell the children the truth.

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!

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Words are loaded pistols.

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.

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

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.