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 had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

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.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Little things affect little minds.

No man is hurt but by himself.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

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

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.