Speak so that your language is as sweet as your feelings are. Make the words true and pleasing. But, for the sake of pleasing another, do not speak falsehood or exaggerate. Cynicism which leads you to speak about a thing in a carping manner and in order to bring it into disrepute is as bad as flattery which makes you exaggerate and cross the boundaries of truth.

- Divine Discourse, July 29th, 1964.

Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine love. - Baba