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A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

If you’ve got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

I’ve certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Well, I always hope that I’m a role model.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn’t read the one until after I’d written the other.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.