A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Both my parents worked at the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, with my dad eventually being hired by another company called Summit Laboratories that made chemical hair straighteners.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

People who know there is a god and people who know there isn't live in exactly the same world. Same number of hours in the day, same weather, same football results. They both love their children and die of the same diseases.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Have you ever wondered why the rich and privileged care about, or even bother with, the gift bag? Because they don't need this stuff. If they wanted it, they could afford to buy it, without blinking. But they love the gift bag, beyond reason.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

A. J. Buckley
A. J. Buckley

I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!