We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.

... it is a major responsibility ... of all communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

What you can't communicate runs your life.

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

Communication of all kinds is like painting-a compromise with impossibilities.

"The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.