Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

Robertson Davies

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Emile M. Cioran

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

Kathleen Turner

As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

Thomas Guthrie

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Constance Baker Motley

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Robert Kennedy

Miss Mary, having been a journalist, had splendid powers of invention. I had never heard her tell a story in the same way twice and always had the feeling she was remolding it for the later editions.

Ernest Hemingway

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Jane Austen

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.

Big Sean

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

John Wesley

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Dickens

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Annie Leibovitz