What can I say? I’m a talker.

Money has a language of its own.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

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.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

I write all of my own speeches.

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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

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

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says ‚Hi‘ during the day.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

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

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

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

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

A letter does not blush.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

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.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

You can only have one aim per debate.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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

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!

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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