If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

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.

I have no country to fight for

To decide to quit on yourself, is to be willing to settle for the pain that comes with every big regret.

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

Another purpose for speaking in tongues is the edification of the church.

I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay.

You can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn't mean you're going to fall off the edge.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.