Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

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

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.

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

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.