English is the easiest language to speak badly.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

I think that we succumb to attitudes that do not permit us to dialogue: domination, not knowing how to listen, annoyance in our speech, preconceived judgments and so many others.

Here we see how environmental deterioration and human and ethical degradation are closely linked. Many people will deny doing anything wrong because distractions constantly dull our consciousness of just how limited and finite our world really is.