I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

Ideas control the world.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgott…

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, an…

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. ... Because it's only when you hitch your wagon…