Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

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

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

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.

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 have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

I kinda live where I find myself.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.