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“It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.”
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“Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.”
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“Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is all you’ve got…and after Everything is nothing. So you were wise to welcome Everything, the good and the bad alike, and cling to it all. Gather it in. Seek the meaning in sorrow and don’t ever turn away, not once, from here until the end. Because it is all the same, it is all unfathomable, and it is all infinitely preferable to the one dreadful alternative.”
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“Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.”
Source : "Sandbagged: Dealing a blow to carbon trading" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008. 
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“My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.”
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“You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.”
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“I am the voice of the voiceless.”
Source : Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Voice Of The Voiceless”
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“Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.”
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“The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.”
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“The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.”
Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
