The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde Wurm:An inordinate proportion of the Marxists I have known would probably have formulated their own views in much the same way. It was almost a point of honor not to engage in 'thinking with the blood,' to borrow a notable phrase from D.H. Lawrence, and to immerse Jewishness in other and wider struggles. Indeed, the old canard about 'rootless cosmopolitanism' finds a perverse sort of endorsement in Jewish internationalism: the more emphatically somebody stresses that sort of rhetoric about the suffering of others, the more likely I would be to assume that the speaker was a Jew. Does this mean that I think there are Jewish 'characteristics'? Yes, I think it must mean that.

Christopher Hitchens

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

John Ruskin

And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly:

Sherman Alexie

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

Rick Baker

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

John Podhoretz

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

A. C. Benson

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

Ed Gillespie

Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

B. C. Forbes

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Marlene Dietrich