Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

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

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

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

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

The more you know the less you need to say.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

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.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

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

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

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

You can stroke people with words.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

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

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

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.

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

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.