Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Coretta Scott King

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

General Douglas MacArthur

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

Vaclav Klaus

I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies, period.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

James Allen

This is pretty strange, not poems, poems are pretty good.

James Dye

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.

Christopher Hitchens

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

Morgan Freeman

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

Gao Xingjian

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

Oscar Wilde

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

John F. Kennedy