I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

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.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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.

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

Words are loaded pistols.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

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.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

I grew up cursing a lot.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

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.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Smiles are the language of love.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.