My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

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.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

War is what happens when language fails.

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

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

If you would judge, understand.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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

Never find fault with the absent.

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

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

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

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

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

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.