Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

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.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

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

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.