“We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying something about our own...”

“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.”

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

“Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.”

“He seemed not to know the uses of silence.”

“Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way...”

“The medium is the message.”

“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.”

“Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it...”

“Speech is civilization itself.”

“What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we...”

“Open your mind before your mouth”