The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary, so that the necessary may speak.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Most people have to talk so they won’t hear.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Effective communication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel about what you know.

There is only one rule for being a good talker--learn to listen.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

It’s much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what’s important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

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.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

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

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.

My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in 'Playboy,' or having been Hugh Hefner's girlfriend - I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That's my main motivation.

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.

Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

I'm not terribly sentimental.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

Stop putting off today madam; you'll find that all those forgotten tomorrows have piled up into a bunch of old yesterdays.

I really don't like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.

Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations.

I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.

I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, 'I'll deal with you.'

I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.

My eccentricity became direction.