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

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.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

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.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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.

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.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

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

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

The more you know the less you need to say.

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

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

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

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. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

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

To add value to others, one must first value others.

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.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

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.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

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

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

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

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.