When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.

The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

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.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

When I listen to people talk, all I hear is what they're not tellin' me.