Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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

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.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right 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.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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.

How can a president not be an actor?

You can stroke people with words.

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

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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

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.

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.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

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

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

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.

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.

Smiles are the language of love.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

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.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

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.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.