“God's true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit.As if utterance fit into the requirements of the human mouth.I learned how to find the new moon by looking for the circular absence of stars. [...]I learned God's true language is only silence and breath.”

“Poetry is the smallest way – it is a small, small way, but it is a way indeed – that the individual body can express its own personhood and value in the face of faceless systems.”

“Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that’s more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won’t it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?”

“Silence is the only language god speaks.”

“This is life, we look but we don't see,and we hear but we don't learn.”

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

“Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.”