Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

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.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

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.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

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.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

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.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

A person hears only what they understand.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

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.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

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

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

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

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Never find fault with the absent.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.