Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

Every failure is an experience builder and a stepping stone towards success.

History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.