"I like to here my own sex praised but not the other."

“If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.”

Source : "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p.146), 1983.

“Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.”

“If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of great agitation.”

“Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.35, BoD – Books on Demand

“Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.”

“Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.”

“I believe that the overwhelming majority of Puerto Rico wants to be Puerto Ricans. I have been in five different states in the United States, and I have found young Puerto Ricans in the states who really love Puerto Rico, who really want to do something for Puerto Rico. And for me, Puerto Rico has to be the promised land of all Puerto Ricans, whether we are in the United States or wherever we are at. But this has to be the promised land. Annexation will never be the answer.”

“I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.”