"Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent."

-- Max Lerner

“I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.”
“There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.”
“It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God.”
“You're alive, Bianca. You still can't appreciate what it means, to be alive. It's better than being a vampire - better than anything else in the world. I remember a little of waht being alive was like, and if I could touch that again, even for a day, it would be worth anything in the world. Even dying again, forever. All the centuries I've known and all the marvels I've seen don't compare to being alive." ~from Evernight, by”
“I almost exclusively wear skinny jeans. I'm terrified of any other cut of denim.”
“The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.”

Source : "Law professor-author Randall Kennedy". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 1, 2011.
“I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.”
“War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.”

Source : Charles Mackay (1846). “Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems”, p.23

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