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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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

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.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

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?

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

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

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

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

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Example is leadership.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

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

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

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

Never find fault with the absent.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

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.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

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

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

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.

The more you know the less you need to say.

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

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.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

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

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Debates, I hate.