Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad.

His eyes, green with yellow sparks, and with elongated pupils like a cat’s, made his grandmother gasp and say: ‘Jesus! He has the devil’s eyes!

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

If you don't fall off the wagon regularly, you're not playing a big enough game.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?