Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

Life is a progression of becoming who we are.

Want to go to West Virginia and risk life and limb with me?"Zane smirked and gave a single nod. "Sounds like fun.

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

I'm just a wimpy baby. We almost called the band Forever Teens because I feel like we're all kind of permanently youthful.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.