The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.

What is the one message that only you can give? It's your story.

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?

Common Core is a big win for education.

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

I believe in love, but believe it's love that keeps beating me down.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.