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People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.