You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

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.

Be not a slave of words.

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

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

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

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

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.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

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.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

A promise must never be broken.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

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

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.