One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

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.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

The more you know the less you need to say.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.