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

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 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.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people.

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

I'm about the present.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.