I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

Rod Stewart

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace

The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures.

Earl Warren

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

James Fenimore Cooper

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

Malcolm X

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Albert Camus

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

John Philpot Curran

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Friedrich von Schiller

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

Martin Scorsese

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

Stafford Cripps

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Salman Rushdie