1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Joseph Addison

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

Mark Van Doren

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Clarence Darrow

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.

Bobby Unser

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Emma Goldman

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skeleton, was the result. This was the advantage of this kind of wisdom and abstinence; the style was so sober that it became lean.

Victor Hugo

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Bertrand Russell

What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying?

Jackie Blue

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Robert Francis Kennedy