The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Paulo Coelho

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.

Steve Maraboli

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Hart Crane

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Debby Boone

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

Source Unknown

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Samuel Johnson

Fear controls you.

Jack Kevorkian

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

Cindy Sheehan

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Baruch Spinoza