She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin', " she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked."I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, " I replied.

He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

Happiness is a continuous creative activity.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.

A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

I go through ups and downs just like everyone does.