“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
“To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice.”
“Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!”
“Shall I tell you a joke about languages? Abulfaz asked.A joke. Yes, okay.What do you call a Russian who speaks four languages?I don't know.A Zionist. What about a Russian who speaks three languages?I don't know.A spy. And two? ... No? A nationalist. And only one? ... An inter-nationalist.”
“(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.”
“No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.”