It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.

It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

If you are not excited about your own dream, how can you expect anybody else to be?

Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.

When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.