I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Disagreement is something normal.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

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.

I write all my sermons.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

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

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

I’m a people pleaser. 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.

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.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

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

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you’re fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

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

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.‘

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

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!‘

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

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

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.

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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Words are loaded pistols.

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.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

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

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.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Coffee is a language in itself.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

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

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

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.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

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

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

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.