Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

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

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it’s pretty intense.

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I’m not an improv guy. I’m a writer-guy who presents what he’s written.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I’ve had the honor of speaking at many commencements.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

At first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

No violent extreme endures.

I write all of my own speeches.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I’m saying, and I track it.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‚convulsions of nature,‘ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.