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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

A different language is a different vision of life.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

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

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

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 you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.