Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

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

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

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

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

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

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

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

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 do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

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.

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.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

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 greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Tell the children the truth.

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.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.