"The most precious things in speech are pauses."

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"People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish."

"Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you."

"I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death."

"He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled."

"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."

"Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes."

"Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it."

"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."

"A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant."

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things."

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