Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.
A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.
A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.
