I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Gary Ackerman

Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of thought, science, poetry, music, love, affection, hatred, passion, went its way, as always, independently, apart from the political amity or enmity of Napoleon Bonaparte, and apart from all possible reforms.

Leo Tolstoy

The unity in every second of all time and all wandering mankind, all wandering womankind, all wandering children.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you write the word monkey a million times, do you start tothink you're Shakespeare?

Steven Wright

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

Charles Monroe Schulz

Men insist that they don

Elizabeth Gould Davis

It is an exciting time where the only limits you have are the size of your ideas and the degree of your dedication

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I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

Paul Muldoon

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

English Proverb

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

George Eliot

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted.

Christopher Hitchens