In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

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.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

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

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

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

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

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

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

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 do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I write all of my own speeches.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

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.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘