If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

War is what happens when language fails.

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

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

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.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

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

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

I don’t like people going behind my back.

One must steer, not talk.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

I’d just like to be treated like a regular customer.

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

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.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

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

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

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

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.