Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I've never heard.

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.