What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

You can’t walk till the end on an active railway line and you can’t walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.

Vomit and feces are two reason I have decided not to procreate.

When you are wondering how do you go on? The better question is, how do you NOT go on?

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.