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

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.

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.

Price is not a consideration when a personal relationship exists.

They wear suits, that's why they are lazy. They are servants, they are supposed to serve us. You can't build an RDP house with a tie.

Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.