At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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.

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

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

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

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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 most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it’s all downhill from that point.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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

Words are loaded pistols.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Tell the children the truth.

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

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.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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?‘

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I write all my sermons.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

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

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

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

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

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

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

Never find fault with the absent.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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.

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.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.