The greatest tie of all is language.... Words are the only things that last for ever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of Time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.