Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

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.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

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

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Speak low, if you speak love.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

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

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.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

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.

Debates, I hate.

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

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

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.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Be not a slave of words.

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

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

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

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

I don’t write letters anymore.

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