The Communist regime didnt consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. – Kathryn Bigelow
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. – Robert Louis Stevenson