Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Never find fault with the absent.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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

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.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

I would say that jazz is my own language.

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

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

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

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

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.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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.

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.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

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

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I don’t write letters anymore.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

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

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

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

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

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.

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.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

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

Silence is safer than speech.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

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

You can stroke people with words.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.