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

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

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

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

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.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

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

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

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

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Respect the burden.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Never find fault with the absent.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

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

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

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

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.