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If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

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

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.