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

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

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 have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

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

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

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

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.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

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.

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.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Be not a slave of words.

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

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

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.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

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

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

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.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

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