I think people should be brave and take a chance and do what excites them.

Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals.

Different languages cut the world into different slices.

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change, . Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

You cannot legislate an attitude.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.

Everywhere......everyone you meet....is a potential brother or sister in CHRIST.

Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.