I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

Evander Holyfield

It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.

Pauline Clarke

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Max Frisch

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Henry Miller

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

John Cowper Powys

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Connie Britton

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Walter Benjamin

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Michael Mandelbaum