I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

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.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Children make your life important.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

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.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

A person hears only what they understand.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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 promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

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.

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

What you guys want, I’m for.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Language is the dress of thought.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.