“Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.”

“Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.”

“In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.”

“Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.”

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

“It's deeds we need, not words.”

“Love hath no need of words.”

“Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.”

“The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.”

“"The words still don't move."
"The words don't need to move. It is you who is moved by them."”