Before I speak, I have something important to say.

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.

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.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

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

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

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

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Smiles are the language of love.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

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.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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 modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

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

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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.

My life is my message.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

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

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

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

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.