They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition

Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about