Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.

Gratitude is arriving at the point where your expectations, accumulation and anticipations make way for appreciation, reflection and celebration.

I'm not that bad, ” he said. “I'm rich, popular. I have a sense of humor. I'm good looking, and not to mention I have a really big—

Opportunities are all around us, but the problem is that most people often look with their physical eyes instead of their mental vision.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.