There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

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

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

God always takes the simplest way.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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.

Money has a language of its own.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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

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.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

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.

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

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Let no such man be trusted.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

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.‘

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.