If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

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.

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

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.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

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

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

What you guys want, I’m for.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

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

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

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.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I’m a people pleaser. 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.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

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.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

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

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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 like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

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

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.