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

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

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.

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.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation