In Jewish tradition, a person who speaks is like an archer: He shoots his arrows, and once they are in the air, he cannot wish them back into the bow. He has created, he realizes later, emissaries or extensions of himself with the powerful capacity to act in his name. All attitudes and consequences caused by these agents will be his responsibility. He who perceives this knows the art of saying little.
— Nilton Bonder, The Kabbalah of Envy