Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

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

A person hears only what they understand.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

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.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

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.

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

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

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

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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.

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.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

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

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

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

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Coffee is a language in itself.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

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

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.