One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Your thoughts and actions becomes your world.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Den I wish I was in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.