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

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

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

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

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.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

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

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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 have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

A letter does not blush.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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.‘

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

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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

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

Without tact you can learn nothing.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

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.