When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women’s and children’s empowerment...

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn’t afford to be.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O’Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the “writing style” of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not...

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

I’d like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that’s basically becoming...

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis – the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

War is just one more big government program.

Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of...

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we’re not going to change their minds.

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

I can’t die but once.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

“Indian policy” has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to...

Garry Kitchen and I played hugely competitive matches of Amazing Tennis. There is a great thing about that game from a tennis player’s perspective.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

I don’t think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It’s something else. It’s not banning. It’s something else.

I know that it isn’t just violence against women, it’s how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It’s a bigger picture.

I would exchange everything for one child of my own.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

I’m famous. That’s my job.

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of...

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and...

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still...

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you’re told writing.