The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

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

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.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

From caring comes courage.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

There is always safety in valor.

Money has a language of its own.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Boldness be my friend.

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.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.