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.

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

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

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

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

War is what happens when language fails.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

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

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

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

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

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

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

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

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

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.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.