Thomas Edison, dubbed the “Wizard of Menlo Park,” was one of the greatest inventors the world has known. His nearly 1,100 patents exceed that of any other inventor in American history, and his inventions were foundational across a bewildering array of domains, from electronics to medicine to chemical research.
Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.
It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.
It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
When you judge another, you do not define them; you define yourself.
Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.
I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.
I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired
I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only — that by his act he will change the course of history.
Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God.
And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.