The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

In order for us to begin something we have to start.

Had there been a computer a hundred years ago it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

You are equally important to me, and I love you all.

I like to be daring and I like to be different. You think anyone out here looks like me? It's pretty different, right?

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.