"Go not to the temple

to put flowers upon the feet of god.

First fill your own house

with the fragarance of love and kindness."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"A voice is a human gift.

It should be cherished and used

to utter fully human speech as much as possible.

Powerlessness and silence go together."

- Margaret Atwood

"Language is a process of free creation;

its laws and principles are fixed,

but the manner in which the laws of generation

are used is free and infinitely varied.

Even the interpretation and use of words

involves a process of free creation."

- Noam Chomsky