If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way.

Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.

Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.

Death is not considerate, or fair.

Man is most free when he is most guided.

The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.

Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.