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Words are only as good as the response to those words.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Good words will not give me back my children.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea, and it would change things. That's a harmless conceit. With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.