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 realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

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.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

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

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

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

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

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

Act, and God will act.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

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

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

A yawn is a silent shout.

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

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

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.