Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

I write all of my own speeches.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say ‚you know‘ more than 200 times in an interview with the New York ‚Daily News,‘ and on 130 occasions while talking to ‚The New York Times‘ during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I’m not an improv guy. I’m a writer-guy who presents what he’s written.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it’s pretty intense.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I can move any crowd.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

At first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

I have been – I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.