Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.
I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. . . . In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.
Who knows what it is, but he [Donald Trump] is incapable of having a consistent thought or policy.
Suffering did different things to different people. . . Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette