Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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.

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.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

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.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

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

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Words are loaded pistols.

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.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

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

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

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

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Coffee is a language in itself.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

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 have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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

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

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

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.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

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

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

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

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

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