Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

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.

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.