“take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.”

“God. Love. People use words all the time. Doesn't mean they agree on their meaning. It doesn't mean they've thought through what they mean when they use them.”

“He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.”

“...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.”

“The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.”

“The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.”