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.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

A yawn is a silent shout.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

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.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Silence is safer than speech.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

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

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

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

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

You can only have one aim per debate.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

We love things we love what they are.

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.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I like to work.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.