“By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left...” — Gerard Manley Hopkins Quote

“By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.”

“What would the world be, once bereft”

“Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.”

“The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.”

“I love the English language. Words have power.”

“I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.”