All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

Floyd Patterson

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Madeleine L'Engle

The aim of life is selfdevelopment. To realize one's nature perfectly that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

Misfortune does not always result in harm.

Italian Proverb

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.

Mike Leigh

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Andrew Greeley

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Franz Grillparzer

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.

Wilhelm Stekel

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

Norman Thomas

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.

William Bolitho