Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals.

Different languages cut the world into different slices.

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

I think people should be brave and take a chance and do what excites them.

I want a big breakfast, " said Fuchsia at last. "I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.

acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

My mother loved the Bible.

I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

The harder I train, the luckier I get!

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled