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.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

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.

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.

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.

The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.

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