When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

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.

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.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

War is what happens when language fails.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

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

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

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.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

The mainstream is always under attack.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.