Our mantra is that 90 percent of all television is bad, and ten percent has never been better. We make fun of that 90 percent.
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
I wouldn't advocate for a feminism that's buttoned-up and divorced of the messiness of our real lives. Your feelings are your feelings, but you're not going to litigate your feelings about my body. The feminist ethics that I signed up for were respect for my bodily autonomy, that my experience is my experience, and that I'm an expert in my own life.