I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

Bloggers now have no concept. They are given things; they put them on, take pictures, and then just disappear from sight. Who cares?

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.