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

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

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

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Disagreement is something normal.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

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

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

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.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

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 don’t want to hear the specials. If they’re so special, put ‚em on the menu.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

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.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

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

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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.

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.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

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.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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

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.

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.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.