Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

It is practical, but that doesn't mean it's right.

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

God, it's nice to be treated like a man.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

You want me to describe Elvis, wow!

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.