Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

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

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Mark Twain

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Winston Churchill

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

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Winston Churchill

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis