It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I hate the idea of genres.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

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

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

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

Debates, I hate.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

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.

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

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

To be social is to be forgiving.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It’s not real life.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

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

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.