Quotes about Communication

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.

We are all such escape artists, you and I. We don't like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day. We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need.

This is what I think, in essence, prayer is. It is the breaking of silence. It is the need to be known and the need to know. Prayer is the sound made by our deepest aloneness.