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

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.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle.

I not only stand on my two feet, but I walk on my two feet for my two feet.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.