I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
A smile is the universal welcome.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.
Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the history of man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very nonsurvival activity. Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble.