Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

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.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

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.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

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

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

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.

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.

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.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

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.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

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

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

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

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 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.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.