Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

One must steer, not talk.

I hate the idea of genres.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

The way I talk is bizarre.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

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.

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.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

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.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

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

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Silence is a source of great strength.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

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.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

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

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.