Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

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

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

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

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says ‚Hi‘ during the day.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

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.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

I didn’t play with other children.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

I think what we’ve found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we’re really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

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.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

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.

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

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that’s true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Everybody likes a compliment.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.