Reading is an important product of language that serves as a foundation of civilization. Without it, humans would essentially function on sound and instinct alone, much like beasts.

Collaboration is about “team work.” It’s not a cliché, it’s a practical reality.

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

I won because of the fact that people that are great, great American people have been forgotten. I call them the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. They've been forgotten.

As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.

I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit it. I've never met one like that, but if I did, I'd hate them.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.