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.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

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

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

Disagreement is something normal.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

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

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

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men’s clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

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.

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

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.