I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

Coffee is a language in itself.

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

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

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.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

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.

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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

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

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

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

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

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

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

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.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

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.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

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

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

All men hate the nagging.

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

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

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

Words are loaded pistols.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

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

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

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.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

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

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.