I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

I wanted to write.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

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

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Rather be dead than cool.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.