But when you get music and words together that can be a very powerful thing.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all this too shall pass.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I write plays and movies I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody 350 kids saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it but respectfully.

As soon as I began it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning and I cannot help it.

I trust that your readers will not construe my words to mean that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online too but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

It's fairness to say those who work hard get up in the morning cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get you become a more successful person. In other words if you want to make money you have to help someone else make money.

I would go visit my mom on Sundays and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words mine and thine were taken away.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say but in the lives they lead.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

Whenever ideas fail men invent words.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented they break 3-to-1 against it.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered and the smile that lights on the first born babe and assures it of a mother's love.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man rather than the applause of thousands of people.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.