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

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.