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.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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

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.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

A letter does not blush.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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?

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

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.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

All men hate the nagging.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

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.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

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.

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

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

Be not a slave of words.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

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.

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

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

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

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.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

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

I’ve often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn’t really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn’t seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

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