The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.