Words ... They've been used to make us laugh and cry. They can wound or heal. They offer us hope or devastation. With words we can make our noblest intentions felt and our deepest desires known. Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives. When Patrick Henry stood before his fellow delegates and proclaimed, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!," his words ignited a firestorm that unleashed our forefathers' unbridled commitment to extinguish the tyranny that had suppressed them for so long. Many of us are well aware of the powerful part that words have played in our history, of the power that great speakers have to move us, but few of us are aware of our ow...