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

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

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

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

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

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.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Money has a language of its own.

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

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

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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

I don’t like people going behind my back.

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

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

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.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

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

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

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

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

In oratory the will must predominate.

A person hears only what they understand.

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

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

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

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

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

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.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

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

I’d just like to be treated like a regular customer.

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

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.