If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.
Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
My words are my bullets.
It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?
I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.
When I talk, people listen.
To speak a true word is to transform the world.
… sledgehammer eloquence...
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.
Sustentative ideas are more important than applause lines. Substance makes speeches.
I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it's always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.
Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.
It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.
