The shorter a word, the more meanings it has.

- Paul A. Delaney

Great leaders are great leaders because through their command of vocabulary power and culture, they are able to make others see and feel what they see and feel. Gain this power for yourself and you will have at your service the greatest force ever put into the hand of mankind.

- Joseph G. Brin

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging. It is the skin of living thought.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

To call forth a concept a word is needed. To portray a phenomenon a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality.

- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, from Traite Elementaire de Chemie, 1789

11/26/99:

When you’re an old man, and you’re speaking to an audience of mixed ages, please refrain from using the term “young people”. Also, please forgive me for using the term “old man”.