The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

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

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

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

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

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

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

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.

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.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

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.

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

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

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.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

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

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

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 speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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.

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.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

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

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

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

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

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

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.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

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.