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

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

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

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

To be social is to be forgiving.

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.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

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.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

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

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.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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.

Money has a language of its own.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

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

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.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

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

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

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.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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.