“It cannot be told by the words of the mouth, it cannot be written on paper”

“A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.”

“Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.”

“I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.”

“What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?”

“Bobby Knight told me this: "There is nothing that a good defense—cannot beat a better offense." In other words a good offense wins.”

“Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.”

“Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.”

“A new kind of society cannot be designed on paper. That is, you cannot plan out a new form of society in advance, then set it up and expect it to function as it was designed to do.”

“They borrow words for thoughts they cannot feel”