"I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world."

-- Socrates

#World Quotes #Athens Quotes #Politics Quotes

“When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.”
“I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.”
“I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.”
“I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.”
“If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?”
“At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?”

Source : "Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Second Edition". Book edited by William H. McNeill, Jerry Bentley and David Christian, April 30, 2010.
“I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.”
“Focus on progress not perfection.”

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