The best book like the best speech will do it all - make us laugh think cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech whether in a senator or an orator.

Blanche talks about aging and why should she be considered poor because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful and so telling and so true.

I love her attitude but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance I never do.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness for speech is itself a critique of life: it names it characterizes it passes judgment in that it creates.

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

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

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

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap is it not?