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

I don’t like people going behind my back.

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

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.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

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

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

The way I talk is bizarre.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Smiles are the language of love.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

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

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.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

Language is the dress of thought.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.