At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

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.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

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.‘

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

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I write all my sermons.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

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.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

War is what happens when language fails.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

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.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

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

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

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

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Language is the dress of thought.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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

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.

The way I talk is bizarre.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

A letter does not blush.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

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

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

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.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

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

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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.