"We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words." - KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam

"No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Elective Affinities

"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?" - RUSSELL HOBAN, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

"The medium is the message." - MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Understanding Media

"I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence." - JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, What is Literature?

"Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself." - REBECCA WEST, The Court and the Castle

"But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." - Bible (Matthew 5:37)

"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)

"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk." - Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)

"England and America are two countries seperated by the same language." - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)

"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it." - Siddhartha

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." - Tomlin, Lily

"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." - Whorf, Benjamin