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

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

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.

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

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

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.