No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Give up smoking cold turkey. Start a diet in the next 5 min. Accept that job right away. Life can be beautiful without planning!

We must work together on a common vision and a common goal.

If we begin to study the Scriptures, our souls shall be sanctified.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

When you're NAT on the net, you're NOT on the net

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is a plain duty for all who mean to be Christians.