Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.
Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.
Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.
Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.
If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.