Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

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

America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.

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

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.