I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Everybody likes a compliment.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Anonymous comments? You’re not in the arena, man. If you can’t say it to me in person in front of my kids, don’t say it.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

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.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I’m very protective.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says ‚Hi‘ during the day.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

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

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that’s true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

I didn’t play with other children.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

I feel like I’m being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I’m upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo’s outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody’s peeping.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.