He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

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.

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

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.