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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.

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.

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

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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 have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.