Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Trust is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

I like being the one who makes a difference. On the pitch, I always try to create a special situation.