To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

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

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

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.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

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.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

I am rather inclined to silence.

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.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

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

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

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

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

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 read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

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

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.