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

All men hate the nagging.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

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.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Words are loaded pistols.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

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.

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

Understanding is a two-way street.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

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

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

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

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

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

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

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

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

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.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

If you can talk, you can write.

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

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

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

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.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

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

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

People are always asking me in interviews, ‚What do you think of foreign affairs?‘ I just say, ‚I’ve had a few.‘

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.

Disagreement is something normal.