I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

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

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

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.

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

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

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

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

One must steer, not talk.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

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

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

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

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

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.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

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

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

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

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

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

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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

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

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

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.