Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

Words pay no debts.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Language is the archives of history.

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.