It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
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Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed sp...
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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hands on kings.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says 'It's a girl.'
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Victorious men of earth, no more Proclaim how wide your empires are;...
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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
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Cease, warring thoughts, and let his brain No more discord entertain But be smooth and calm again.
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February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things;...
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They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.
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Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.
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Sex is hardly ever just about sex
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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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... rhetoric never won a revolution yet.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen.
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Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .
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I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a com...
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.
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No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
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There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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