The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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

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!

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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

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

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Humor is reason gone mad.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

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.

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.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Tell the children the truth.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Words are loaded pistols.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

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

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

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

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

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

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

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.