People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.