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.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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!‘

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

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

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

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.

All men hate the nagging.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

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.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

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

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

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

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

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.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

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

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

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

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

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

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

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

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

I don’t race cars.

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

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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.

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.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.