“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years; there’s someth…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“We spoke endlessly about everything and nothing. Now, I cannot even remember the sound of your voice.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“People don't buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it. A failure to communicate WHY creates nothing but stress or doubt.”— Simon Sinek, amazon.com
“Silence doesn’t always mean you have nothing to say. It may mean you realize that words aren’t always necessary.”— Hart Ramsey, twitter.com
“Let’s clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.”— Laurie Helgoe, amazon.com
“One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.”— Jose Saramago, amazon.com
“We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“The echo of embarrassment used to extend only as far as your family, village, school or community, but now it's the online community too. Millions of people, often anonymously, can stab you with their words, and that's a lot of pain.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Cruelty to others is nothing new, but online, technologically enhanced shaming is amplified, uncontained, and permanently accessible.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, ‘that woman’. I was seen by many but actually known by few. And I get it, it was easy to forget that ‘that woman’ was dimensional, had a soul, and was once unbroken.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actio…”— Sigmund Freud, amazon.com
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”— Lady Dorothy Nevill, en.wikipedia.org
“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”— Muriel Spark, amazon.com
“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say.”— Sydney J. Harris, amazon.com