I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

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

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

If you can talk, you can write.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

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

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

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

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

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

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

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 used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

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

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

In oratory the will must predominate.

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

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

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.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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

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

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

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

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

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

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

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

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.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

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

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

I write all my sermons.