To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

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

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

A person hears only what they understand.

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

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

A letter does not blush.

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

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’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

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 mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

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

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.