Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Author: D. H. Lawrence

True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.

-Hugh Prather

“As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.”

– William Jennings Bryan

“As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom; Sometimes it’s filled with feet.

– Robert Orben

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom; Sometimes it’s filled with feet.

– Robert Orben

“Be interesting, be enthusiastic … and don’t talk too much.”

– Norman Vincent Peale

“Be interesting, be enthusiastic … and don’t talk too much.”

– Norman Vincent Peale

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Marcus T. Cicero