Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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

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

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

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

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

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.

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

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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

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

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

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

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

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her 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.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

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.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.