Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

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.

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.

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.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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.

You can stroke people with words.

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 sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Words are loaded pistols.

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

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

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

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

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

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.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

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

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

A letter does not blush.

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 do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

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.

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

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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.

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.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

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

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

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.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

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