The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.