"Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them."

“The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.”

Source : Lincoln Chafee's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

“I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.”

“And we need a president who is a uniter, not a divider; who can lower the temperature, not raise the temperature. And I wish President Trump would spend more time trying to go beyond his immediate base to reach people, and use the presidential microphone to try to bring people together, instead of the rhetoric that seems to divide us.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com

“Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.”

Source : "No Other Book: Selected Essays" by Randall Jarrell, edited by Brad Leithauser, (p. 15), 1999.

“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”

“Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself”

“In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.”

“Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.”