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Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as "the richest man in the world." That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.

We Are All the Same_x000D__x000D_Listen to the reeds as they sway apart;_x000D__x000D_Hear them speak of lost friends._x000D__x000D_At birth, you were cut from your bed,_x000D__x000D_Crying and grasping in separation._x000D__x000D_Everyone listens, knowing your song._x000D__x000D_You yearn for others who know your name, _x000D__x000D_And the words to your lament._x000D__x000D_We are all the same, all the same, _x000D__x000D_Longing to find our way back;_x000D__x000D_Back to the one, back to the only one.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.