All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

—Kahlil Gibran

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

—Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

—Learned Hand

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

—James Earl Jones

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

—Thomas Jefferson

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

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken—unspeakable!—fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse—a little tiny mouse!—of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

–Winston Churchill

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

—Benjamin Franklin

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

—Jean Baptiste Girard

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

—Dorothy Nevill

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

—Robert Southey

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

—Marcel Marceau