If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

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

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

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.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.