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.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

People like to talk about war.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I don’t write letters anymore.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

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.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

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.

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

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

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

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

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

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Debates, I hate.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

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

Writers speak stench.

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

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.

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

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Tell the children the truth.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Be not a slave of words.

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.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

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

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.