Not having ice cream, ” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

we're all freaks sometimes, Melody, " he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most.

You can be inspired externally but when it comes down to achieving your lofty goals it's all personal determination which is internal derived from the eternal.

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.