"Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a..." - Quote by Bo Bennett

“Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.”

“The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.”

“Peeves do not make very good pets.”

“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”

“Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.”

“Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.”

“There are two types of speakers: those thatare nervous and those that are liars.”

“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”

“I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.”