But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

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

There are some loony people in this world!

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

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

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

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

I write all my sermons.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

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

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

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

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.