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.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Your response to adversity is what positions you for promotion

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else.

Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.