When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

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

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

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!

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

There is no wealth but life.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I can express myself.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.