Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

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.

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.

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.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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

The more you know the less you need to say.

Coffee is a language in itself.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

In oratory the will must predominate.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

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

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Disagreement is something normal.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

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.

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.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Debates, I hate.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

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

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

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.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

A person hears only what they understand.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.