Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women

We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.

Attitude is the source of beauty, self-confidence, success and happiness.

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.

I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.

Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

I loved you!" he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. "I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up.

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.