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

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

I’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

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.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

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

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

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

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

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.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

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 you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

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

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

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

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.