Jane King

“His coat was open wing and wing but he was radiant with talk, and the wind blew over his big besmirched cheeks and exposed earlobes with no effect. He was like a small, hot, talkative planet.”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash

“One learns more,’ she said to me one day, ‘talking to ignorant people about their own affairs, than in addressing oneself to”
― Virginia Rounding, Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power

“determined, America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons. . . . Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country’s cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof. The”
― David McCullough, 1776