Tell them to send everything that can fly.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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

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

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Debates, I hate.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

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

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.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Never find fault with the absent.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what’s called in the press ‚Obama’s Army.‘ But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That’s critical.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

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.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

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

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

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.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late ’70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

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

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

All men hate the nagging.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.