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

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

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

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.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

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

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

Money has a language of its own.

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

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

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.

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.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

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

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

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.

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

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

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 have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

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.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

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

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.