Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.

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.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

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.