Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing..

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose..

If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, see….

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish..

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You d….

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's..

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us..

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves ….

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noi….

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words..

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read..

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society..

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom..

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting..

The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us..

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor..

English, our common language, binds our diverse people..

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation.

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically cho….

America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create….

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Ab….