Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

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!

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

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.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Disagreement is something normal.

If you can talk, you can write.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

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.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

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

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.

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

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

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

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

None of the films I’ve done was designed for a mass audience, except for ‚Indiana Jones.‘ Nobody in their right mind thought ‚American Graffiti‘ or ‚Star Wars‘ would work.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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.‘

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

The more you know the less you need to say.

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

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

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.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

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

One must steer, not talk.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.