Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. L .Frank Baum
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. Doris Lessing
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. Doris Lessing
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. Doris Lessing
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. J . D. Salinger
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. J . D. Salinger
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. Jackie Robinson
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. Jackie Robinson
I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. Jackie Robinson
