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

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

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

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

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.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Smiles are the language of love.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

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.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

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

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.‘

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

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

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

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

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.