Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.

-Marceau, Marcel
Attributed.

Translation isthe paradigm, the exemplar of all writing† It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

-Mathews, Harry Burchell
  Country Cooking and Other Stories,'The Dialect of the Tribe'.