If you’re making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions […] or juicy gossip.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can challenge governments, you can challenge policymakers, and you can… actually shape and form future policy, I think it changes the perception that a lot of young people have about where power is

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

I wanna get the streets riled back up. I wanna get super tours and bookings.

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends

The more efficient a machine becomes, the more energy it consumes.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.