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

Without tact you can learn nothing.

A yawn is a silent shout.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

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 very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

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.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

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

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

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

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

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

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I write all of my own speeches.

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

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

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.

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

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.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Language is the dress of thought.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

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.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

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