You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.

She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.

The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.

What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.