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

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

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.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

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

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Smiles are the language of love.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

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.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

A yawn is a silent shout.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

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.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.