Language is a medium. It brings people together. “For the Greeks,” wrote Hannah Arendt, “the essence of friendship consisted in discourse. They held that only the constant interchange of talk united citizens in a [political society]. However much we are affected by the things of the world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows …. We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.” — philosopher Hannah Arendt

“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.” — George Eliot

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn like fabulous Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” — author Jack Kerouac from ‘On The Road’