One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

To be social is to be forgiving.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

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

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

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

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

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.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

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

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

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.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.