It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

If you are a queen and I am a queen then who will fill the bucket of water?

Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.