Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.

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?

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them. 

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.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.