A yawn is a silent shout.

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 had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

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

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

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

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

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

All men hate the nagging.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

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.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. 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.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

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.

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?‘

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. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

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

Coffee is a language in itself.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

You can only have one aim per debate.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Be not a slave of words.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

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

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

There are really two core principles at play here. There’s giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there’s keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We’re not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.