Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.

Deliver more than you promise.

If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it.

...with electronic communication, what one writes in a moment, eternity will not erase.

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!

The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.