If you have a diamond, it's just one. You have it, and no one else does. It can't grow and make more diamonds, And if you lose it, it's gone.
Millions of people can use the same word, Even at the same time, And words aren't easily lost.
We define words, But words define us in the end.
Words contain ideas. The more words you know, The more ideas you can have. With ideas, you can do almost anything. If you have many diamonds, but no ideas, You are not rich.
Shelagh S. Kiffa, Mauritania 2000