One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.

—James Earl Jones

By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life.

—Jean Baptiste Girard

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

 —Voltaire

However many holy words you read, / However many you speak, / What good will they do you / If you do not act on upon them?

—Buddha

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man’s principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man’s other tools would be worthless.

—Lewis Mumford

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

—Thomas Jefferson

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.

—Truman Capote

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

 —Mark Twain

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

—Martin Luther King, Jr

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

—Chinese proverb

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

 —Ronald Regan

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

—Jonathan Swift