Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control

Every moment holds the potential to cause us to see differently.

Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

Stress is something that makes you feel you can't be yourself.

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material.