Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same.

Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn’t get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out—and he was burning out.

Every invalid is a physician.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

I know I often get a job because of how I look. I hope that I keep the job because of how I act.