I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

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

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

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

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.

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

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

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

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

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

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

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.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

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

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

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.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

When I say ‚Crush your enemy‘, I don’t literally mean it.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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.

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Money has a language of its own.