“Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.”

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”

“How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?”

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”

“Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.”

“Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.”

“If you want understand how a woman loves you just have to listen her words backwards. If you want to understand how a man loves, when he talks about love you must close your ears.”

“Dear Snæfríður, is it not clear to you how disastrous your words were, when you said just now that you do not fear the eye of God watching over you?”

“You see how I try
To reach with words
What matters most
And how I fail.”

“How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!”