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

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

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.

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.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

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

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

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

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

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

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.

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

A letter does not blush.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

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.

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

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

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

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.

You can only have one aim per debate.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

Coffee is a language in itself.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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.

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.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

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

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.

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

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

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.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

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.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.