Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

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

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Smiles are the language of love.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

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

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

A letter does not blush.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

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

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

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 friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

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.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.