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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

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

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

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

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

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

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Words are loaded pistols.

A letter does not blush.

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

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

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

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

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

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

What can I say? I’m a talker.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

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.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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.

You can stroke people with words.

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.

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

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

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.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.