The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

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

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

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

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 really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

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.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Words are loaded pistols.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

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.

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.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

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.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

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

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

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.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

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.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

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

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.