Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Money has a language of its own.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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.

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.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

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.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

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.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

You can only have one aim per debate.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

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

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

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

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.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

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

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

A person hears only what they understand.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.