I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.