Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

If you judge, investigate.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

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.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

When in doubt tell the truth.

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.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

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.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

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

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

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

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

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.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

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.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.