Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Money has a language of its own.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Smiles are the language of love.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

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.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

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

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

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

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.

Power is competence.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.