The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The American people have not become heartless.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

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.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

You can only have one aim per debate.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

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.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

I write all of my own speeches.

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.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

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.

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

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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.

Smiles are the language of love.

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.‘

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

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

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.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Money has a language of its own.

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

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

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.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.