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!

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

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.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

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

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

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

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

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

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

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

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Coffee is a language in itself.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.