Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

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

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

What you guys want, I’m for.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

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.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Debates, I hate.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

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.

Never find fault with the absent.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

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

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

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

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

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

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

It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

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

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.