But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

Robert Benchley

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

Jesse Jackson

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Kevyn Aucoin

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

Jean de La Fontaine

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

Francesca Lia Block

Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey.

Terry Pratchett

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Kurt Vonnegut

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

When we focus our attention on things that are either in the past of in the future, it dilutes our experience of right now. Today is the day you can break from that.

Steve Maraboli

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

William Cobbett

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Ramakrishna