And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.

It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.