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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.
The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it'.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.
True love stories never have endings.
None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow.
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Never complain and never explain.
At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature', but my life was never like that.
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
