Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change.

Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.