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.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Never find fault with the absent.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

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

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

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

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

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.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

The way I talk is bizarre.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That’s what I hate most. I think it’s very demode.

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.

No one wants to see curvy women.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I don’t write letters anymore.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Disagreement is something normal.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Honolulu is a melting pot.