Simplicity clarity singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.

If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.