There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I was jealous; therefore I loved.

So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

I would rather be ashes than dust.