Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.

And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.

Sudden changes are always acceptable for me. What a weather !! Happy !!

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow and do things that do scare me. I want to work with filmmakers who will help me go deeper in my work.

Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

You can have, do, or be anything you want.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.