The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

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.

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

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.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.