Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Language is the dress of thought.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

In oratory the will must predominate.

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

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

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.

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.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

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

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

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

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

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.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Tell the children the truth.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘