In the age of television image becomes more important than substance.

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.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

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

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

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

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

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

Every true leader is a true follower. Every true follower is a true leader. You are followed because of the dreams you pursue

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Good things are always appreciated, bad things deserve ignorance.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

Do fewer things and do them well. Focus on the things only you can do. Do the important things which must be done now.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.