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

To be social is to be forgiving.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

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

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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!

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

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

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

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

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

History is written by the victors.

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

Be not a slave of words.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

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.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

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

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

In oratory the will must predominate.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

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

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

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.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

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

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.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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