You can only have one aim per debate.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

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

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

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

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

Speak low, if you speak love.

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

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.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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

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.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

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

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

All men hate the nagging.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

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

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

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

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

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.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

A letter does not blush.

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

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.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

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

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.