A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

It's too bad we're not all teddy bears. More stuffing would only make us cuter and cuddlier.

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

It's in our genes, we were built to wander.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors