It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

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

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

I can express myself.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

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

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

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.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

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

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

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

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

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

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

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

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

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

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

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.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.