Bertolt Brecht

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.