Word Quotes

There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.

I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”

You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.