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.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Finality is not the language of politics.

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

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

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

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

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

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.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The more you know the less you need to say.

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

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.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

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

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.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

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

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

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.

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.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

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.‘

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn’t refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.