Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end

'The last word' is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance