These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

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

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

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.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

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.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

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.

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

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

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

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

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.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

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

I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

It takes three to make a child.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

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.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

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

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.