In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.