I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

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

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

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

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

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.

You can only have one aim per debate.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

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.

Words are loaded pistols.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

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.