When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

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

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

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

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

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

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

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

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

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

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

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

In oratory the will must predominate.

The way I talk is bizarre.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

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

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

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.‘

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

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

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

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

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.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.