A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.

... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.

Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves and freemen.

If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is worth making.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] finds himself in an unfamiliar and, perhaps, uncomfortable position. The enemies he's been fighting against are gone.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.

I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and people know that. They really love the tools and, if you have the tools, you can pretty much do the craft.

Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.