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.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

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

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

‚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‘.

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

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

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

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.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

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

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

A person hears only what they understand.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

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

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

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

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.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a time.‘

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

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

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

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

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Simplify, simplify.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.