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.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A yawn is a silent shout.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

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.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

To be social is to be forgiving.

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

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

A letter does not blush.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.