My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

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.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

What you guys want, I’m for.

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 can talk, you can write.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what’s left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

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

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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

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.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

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

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

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

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

Language is wine upon the lips.

You can stroke people with words.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

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.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

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

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

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.

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