we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally.

Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

Ultimately, the goal of personal Bible study is a transformed life and a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.

What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!