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Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.