Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

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

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

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

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

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

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

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

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

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.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I write all of my own speeches.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

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

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

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

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

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.