I have a trend of my own.

I lived and languished.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

We hate our squalor.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

My body gets weak without truth.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

I have a trend of my own.

Busy remaking the world man forgot to remake himself.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

I'm happiest when I'm moving.

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

I like running, and I like boxing.

If you are lucky enough to be a genealogist you are lucky enough.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

Dance, to me, is an expression of who we are.

People are pretty much alike. Its only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Learn to think impartially.

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.