"One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the course of any of these language activities, you run across words whose meaning or use baffles you, don't by-pass them. Look them up in the dictionary and familiarize yourself with them."

“I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.”

“This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.”

“It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .”

Source : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.98, Pickle Partners Publishing

“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”

“You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.”

“Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.”

“Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.”

“The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.”

Source : Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866”, p.478, Univ. of Tennessee Press