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

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

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.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

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.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Never find fault with the absent.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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

Everybody likes a compliment.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

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.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

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

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

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

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.

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.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

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

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!