Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

Sela Ward

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

In literature imitations do not imitate

Mark Twain

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Tony Benn

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

Christopher Hitchens

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Sophocles

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Emma Goldman

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Oscar Wilde

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, P

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes

Henry David Thoreau