I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

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.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn’t allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn’t do anything with my classmates.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

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.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

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

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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.

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

In oratory the will must predominate.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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