I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.

A fallen blossomreturning to the bough, I thought --But no, a butterfly.

We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human beings and focus on our long term goals by not allowing others to take advantage of our lives.

We are growing day by day as we are continuously striving for excellence in life.

Of course he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

America's image throughout the world is very bad.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

I've seen Trump off the campaign trail, and I truly do believe that he has the leadership qualities and the vision to make America great again.

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.