Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

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.

Smiles are the language of love.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

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.

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.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

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

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

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

A letter does not blush.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

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

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.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

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

Language is the dress of thought.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.