To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

If you can talk, you can write.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

I don’t try to control my days.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

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

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

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.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

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

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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 like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.