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 will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

All good art is an indiscretion.

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.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

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

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

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.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

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.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

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.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Disagreement is something normal.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

One must steer, not talk.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

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.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

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.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.