You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

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.

Speak not, but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

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

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

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

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.