I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

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

A body without compassion is like the rose without the scent.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

When I'm in the U.K., I have a personal trainer who is wonderful, and she's hard-core and makes sure I get up in the morning and go.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

The original 'About Last Night' was phenomenal.

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.

How old are you?” – Nick “That many zeros and you just get tired of counting.” – Caleb

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.