Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

All men hate the nagging.

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.

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

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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 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.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don’t think I’m camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

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

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.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

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.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

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

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

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

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

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

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

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.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.