The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

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.

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.

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.

The thing is that what you see on Snapchat, that’s DJ Khaled. That’s Khaled for real. That’s Khaled.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

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.

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

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

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

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

There’s backlash about everything I do.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

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.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

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

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

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.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

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.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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.

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

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

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.

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.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

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

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

Never find fault with the absent.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

In oratory the will must predominate.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

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

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.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

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

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.