All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

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

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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

Money has a language of its own.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

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

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

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

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 legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

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.‘

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

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

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.