In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

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.

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.

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

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

I write all of my own speeches.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.