A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

We find ourselves in the pursuit of our dreams.

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.

I love employment, and it's never, ever guaranteed. As much as I love doing animated voices, I just love working.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.