“Fate loves the fearless.”

“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

“A wise man travels to discover himself.”

“The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.”

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

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