What you guys want, I’m for.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

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

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

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

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

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.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.