I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

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.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

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.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

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

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I can express myself.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

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.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Be not a slave of words.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I don’t write letters anymore.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

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

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.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

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.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.