No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

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

We agreed to meet at 4. I meant AM and she meant PM, so we both just stood around thinking we’d been stood up.

On a visit or vacation to Toba Lake,you may say 'Horas' to Batak people,when we meet, visit and shake hands.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with anothe

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.

Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.

As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?

A letter is the most basic—yet the most flexible—mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter.

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.