How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

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

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.