The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

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

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

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

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

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

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

If you can talk, you can write.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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

I can express myself.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

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

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.

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.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

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

A yawn is a silent shout.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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.

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

The way I talk is bizarre.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

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.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

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

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

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.