All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Speak low, if you speak love.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.