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.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren’t really about anything – which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

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

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

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.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

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.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

Coffee is a language in itself.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

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

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

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

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

A yawn is a silent shout.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

Disagreement is something normal.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

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

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

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.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

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.

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.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.