When I die, I want to be remembered for what I did, not what I could've done

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.