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

- S. I. Hayakawa

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

- S. I. Hayakawa

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

- S. I. Hayakawa

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.

- S. I. Hayakawa

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

- S. I. Hayakawa

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

- S. I. Hayakawa

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

- S. I. Hayakawa

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…

- S. I. Hayakawa

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

- S. I. Hayakawa