The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

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.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

In oratory the will must predominate.

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

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

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.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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.‘

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

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.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

I write all of my own speeches.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

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

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

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

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.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

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.

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.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.