The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.

What is failure to a person who is not afraid to learn from it and try again?

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the oval office.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

I got fined for talking to myself.