“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

“The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical methodmore daring than anything that the history of philosophy recordsof Lo...”

“Necessity does the work of courage.”

“Optimism is the foundation of courage.”

“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.”

“To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”

“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there's nothin...”

“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it past the first letter. If I sto...”

“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts like a Chinese nest of boxes oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front in our ancestors, back and back until...”