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

Smiles are the language of love.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Silence is safer than speech.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

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.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Be not a slave of words.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

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

War is what happens when language fails.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

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

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

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

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

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Never find fault with the absent.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

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.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It’s become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

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.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Words are but the signs of ideas.