All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Nothing can affect my voice, it’s so bad.

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 can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

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

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

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.

What you guys want, I’m for.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

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.

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

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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

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

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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

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

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

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.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!