Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

You can't see other's point of view when you have only one language.

If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.