Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

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

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

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!

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

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

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

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 can express myself.

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

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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

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.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

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.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.