I'm everything I am because you loved me.
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.
If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.