I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

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

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, ‚What kind of music do you make?‘, and you say, ‚Pop music.‘ You may as well have ‚I’m not cool‘ stamped on your forehead.

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.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

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

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

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.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Never find fault with the absent.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

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.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

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 always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.