Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Never find fault with the absent.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

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.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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

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.

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

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

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

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

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 guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

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.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

You can stroke people with words.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.