The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

Andre Dubus III

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

Ron Wyden

Nie mo?na zrozumie? ani ?ycia jednostki, ani ?ycia spo?ecze?stwa, nie odnosz?c jednego do drugiego.

Charles Wright Mills

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Adolf Loos

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Gertrude Stein

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

Cliff Richard

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Susan Sarandon

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Thomas Jefferson

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Tom Bodett

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

Gregory Maguire