If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

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

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

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

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

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

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

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

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

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.

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.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

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

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Speak low, if you speak love.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

To be social is to be forgiving.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I write all of my own speeches.

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.

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

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Silence is safer than speech.

Never find fault with the absent.