"With empathy, I'm fully with them, and not full of them - that's sympathy."

“In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.”

“Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.”

Source : 1989 Everywoman's Money Book (with Lynne MacFarlane).

“Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple”

“There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.”

“Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.”

“It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.”

Source : "Is weight the new race?" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2006.

“The French want to regain control of their own country. They want to determine the course of their own economy and their immigration policies. They want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union.”

Source : Source: www.eunews.it