“Speaking our language, you will understand us—and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.”

“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.”

“Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.”

“It [thought] is a mechanical thing and can solve only mechanical problems. But you want to use it to understand something living; that is the problem. It is not intended for that. Human problems are something living. You cannot use thinking to solve those problems.”

“You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.”

“¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?”

“Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.”

“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”

“Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.”

“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”