Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

No doubt Pain as God’s megaphone is a terrible instrument

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody.

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.