Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

I like to let things breathe.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Tell the children the truth.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

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

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

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

The way I talk is bizarre.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

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.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

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.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.