It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

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.

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

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

All men hate the nagging.

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

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.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

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

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

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.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

If you can talk, you can write.

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.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I write all my sermons.

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.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

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.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

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.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

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.

Smiles are the language of love.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

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

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

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

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

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.