You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Trust, but verify.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

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

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

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.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.