What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.