Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.