Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

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.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

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.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

The more you know the less you need to say.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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

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

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

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

Beauty without expression is boring.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.