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.

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

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.