Eric Phillips

“The illiterate do not write letters; they draw them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi