As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.

And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.

What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.

There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

I will reveal to the American people over and over and over again the Clinton way, say what you have to say to get elected, lie as long as you can get away with it.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.