Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Before I speak I have something important to say.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked, leadership is defined by results not attributes.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog I still prepare a victory speech.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

She had lost the art of conversation, but not unfortunately the power of speech.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness only in his actions, in his life.

For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches to foreign nations and to the next ages.

We do not need to proselytise, either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.