Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.
When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.