The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

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.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

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.

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

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

Smiles are the language of love.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

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

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

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.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

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.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Disagreement is something normal.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

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.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

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

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Coffee is a language in itself.

The way I talk is bizarre.

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

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.