So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Abraham Cahan

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful...It's made for the losers.

Rita Mae Brown

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

Robert Creeley

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Deng Xiaoping

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardner

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Emma Goldman

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

George J. Mitchell

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Robert Staughton Lynd

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

Dixie Lee Ray

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Don Marquis

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

John Green