There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.