[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Come with me and take back your lives!

I tear at the air with glass nailsthat have learned to scalemountains of mirrors.

Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil!

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media’s depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don’t have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

Lovers have heartaches That can't be cured by drugs Or sleep, Or games, But only by seeing their beloved.