From the wise and charming and tall Monsignor Sokolowski:

"Human thinking occurs most specifically in the medium of speech, but it can also be exercised in depiction, dance, and music; there can be as much intelligence in a portrait or a landscape as in an essay, each of which has its own kind of syntax. Thinking also occurs in the rationalized motions we call sport and in the patterned conduct we call games. Playing tennis and playing poker are exercises of reason, and they have their syntax too. Thinking occurs in the establishment of political societies and the performance of political actions, and it occurs further in acts of courage, justice, and friendship, in the fabrication of roads, bridges, and houses, and in the medical treatment of an illness. It occurs in a distinctive way in the pursuit of mathematical science and the technology derived from it. These are all exercises of reason, and words function at the heart of them all, even though they are not reducible to words."

--Christian Faith and Human Understanding

This man is one of the most crystal clear thinkers/speakers.