I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

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.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

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

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

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

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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

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

A person hears only what they understand.

Understanding is a two-way street.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

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

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

To be social is to be forgiving.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

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

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.