...On Words

"A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator."- Anonymous 

"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken--unspeakable!--fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse--a little tiny mouse!--of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."- Winston Churchill

"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment."- Learned Hand 

"Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them."- Samuel Butler 

"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."- Manly Hall 

"Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind."- Charles Capps 

"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness."- Jim Rohn 

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning."- Benjamin Franklin 

"Words--so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator."- Anonymous