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

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

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

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

The way I talk is bizarre.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

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.

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

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

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

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I don’t write letters anymore.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

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

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

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

Without tact you can learn nothing.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

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

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

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.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

To be social is to be forgiving.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

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.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

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