"I never tire of reading Tom Paine...." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.”

“Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.”

“Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.”

“Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.”

“Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.”

“History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.”

“Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.”

“It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.”

“Adult males are what their moms designed them.”