Eating words has never given me indigestion.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

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.

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.

We are masters of the unsaid words but slaves of those we let slip out.