Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

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.

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

The doors of Hell are never bolted or barred, to those who belong there.

Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard

Justice is truth in action.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.