Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

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.

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.

It's funny to think that Christmas — a time known for its joyful togetherness — can be the loneliest time of the year for some.

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, once joked, “Richard, just don’t come to Washington.

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

Dentists, lawyers, doctors are all a bunch of thieving bastards.