When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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.

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.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

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

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

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

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

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.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

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

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

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

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.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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

The French complain of everything, and always.

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

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.