Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

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

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

I’m not a natural joiner.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

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

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

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

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.