I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

You’ve got a big ego, Fuentes.”“That’s not all I’ve got.

This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.

I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than the big part of the audience that kind of gives itself over to the scene.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

I write what I write.

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.