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

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

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.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

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

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

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.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.