The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

It's your words that gave me courage. It became my light that would guide me towards the right path again. -Jellal Fernandes

Persevere with a positive attitude - Michael Jordan

A house can be replaced but never a lost life.

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.

I wish I were more disciplined.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.