Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.

Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not