It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.