My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

The sky mingled with the Earth infinitely in the tenderness of rain drops.

Never, never give up in life, no matter how tough a situation may seems.

My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

I had to choose: Either leave the country, where it's become dangerous for me, or go on the offensive.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.