The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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

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

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Smiles are the language of love.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

You can only have one aim per debate.

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

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

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.

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.

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

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

A yawn is a silent shout.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

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

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

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.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

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

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.