“There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”

“The words of honorable men are more valuable than gold”

“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”

“A world of words where the black characters printed on the parchment he held meant more to this monk than the people or places around him.”

“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is nothing more than propaganda for a personality cult. What is important about printing presses is not the mechanism, but the authors.”

“More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.”