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.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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

I write all of my own speeches.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

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.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

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

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

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.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

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

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

There’s so many bits on a car these days it’s hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it’s hard to know exactly where the car is.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

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

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

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.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

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

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

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.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

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

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

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

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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