Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

I think three debates is good. I think it should be on a night where viewers are going to be able to watch.

Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful.

Games are providing rewards that reality is not.

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.