I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Time erodes us all.

It takes more courage to smile than to frown. So meet the world with a smile and the courageous will smile back.

How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer son of the morning!

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.