We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

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.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

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

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

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

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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

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

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

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

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

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

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

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

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

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.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

A letter does not blush.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.