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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

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

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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.

Law is always better than war.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

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

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

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

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

All men hate the nagging.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

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.

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

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

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Listen to many, speak to a few.