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

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.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

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

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

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

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

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.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

If you can talk, you can write.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

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

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

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

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

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.