No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I write all my sermons.

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.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

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.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

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

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

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.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

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

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.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

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

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

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.‘

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 convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

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