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

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

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.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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.

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

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

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

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

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

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

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

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.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

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

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

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.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

One must steer, not talk.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

Be not a slave of words.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

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

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

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

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.