If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

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

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

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.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

I can express myself.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

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

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. 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.

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

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what’s left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

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

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

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.

Syllables govern the world.

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

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

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.

And one more thing.

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.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

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

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

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

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.