Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Rap was my drug.

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.

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

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

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.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Silence is safer than speech.

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.

Be not a slave of words.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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.

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

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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

All men hate the nagging.

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

Language is the dress of thought.

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.

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.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

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

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Tell the children the truth.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.