What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh, ” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

Go home now, ” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.”“What are we going to need it for?” asks a voice from the crowd.“For guns and ammunition, ” says I.

Introspect.You know yourself more each day, Yet, you find out how little you know yourself too.

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

The Netherlands have great strikers... but they are only playing one. They are depriving themselves of their best qualities and shooting themselves in the foot.

In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

Today was tomorrow yesterday so don't inhale.

Let us live without hate among those who hate

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!