There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.

Everyone has the right to speak their feelings without fear, we all have the right, duty and privilege of allowing that to happen.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Watch what people do before they say something. Then watch what they do before they say something else. That's where the Truth Lies.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

My ex girlfriend, she gave great log cabin. But she couldn’t write a speech like Lincoln. So I grew a beard and broke up with her.

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.