The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

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

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Silence is safer than speech.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Knowledge is power.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.