What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...

...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...

Certain words roll off the tongue like frozen balls of saliva. Words like sure, positive, and definite—you know, words that are certain.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips.

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.

Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.