He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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

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

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.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

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

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

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

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.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

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

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

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.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The way I talk is bizarre.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

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.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

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

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.