There is something magnificent in having a country to love.
There's no such thing as society.
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.
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
Look right at it. Know you can. " Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.
Motivation is like bathing. You've got to do it every single day.
We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.