“A man has to grow up in a language to be able to understand it scrambled.”

“The make-up sat on the surface of my skin like scrambled egg.”

“Language is a gift that puts lyrics to the music of our lives. Without spoken language we wouldn’t be able to say, ‘I love you’. We’d have to say ‘uuurrrgghh’ or hold up a sign. And whether it’s one person’s gentle English or another’s muddy, arrogant French, it’s our language that makes us unapproachable and difficult to understand.”

“When it comes to health, we (delegation of Taitung County) from a different part of the world (Taiwan) are able to understand a common language.”

“The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.”

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”

“It is by metaphor that language grows.”

“: A philosopher is a man in the street who speaks the same street language. He has to speak from personal experience and try to make simple spirits understand his way of life.”

“One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand”