The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

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

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

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.

Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation