If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I’m nobody, who are you?

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

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.

I have always been that girl in the back who doesn’t say anything.

I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people’s poet so I write for the people.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

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.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

To be social is to be forgiving.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I just want to be myself.