I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Love is the one wild card.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

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.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The more you know the less you need to say.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

A letter does not blush.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

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

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

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!

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

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

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

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.