Silence is argument carried out by other means.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

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

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

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.

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

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

There are really two core principles at play here. There’s giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there’s keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We’re not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

I don’t write letters anymore.