Let me begin by saying that I am from Lithuania, a country that speaks Europe’s oldest language, even older than Latin or Homeric Greek. It’s in a linguistic group of its own (Baltic), and every European language has some Lithuanian words in it – no wonder Esperanto was invented here. And, oh yes, we do play a mean game of basketball!
For me, being born a Lithuanian is all about music in the country that calls itself “Dainava” – Land of Song.
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy of human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult" Samuel Johnson
"I can resist anything except temptation"
Oscar Wild
"When you fall, you suppose to get up not give up" Bill Clinton
"One thing that's wrong with intellectuals and writers-they don't feel a hell of a lot except their own comfort or their own pain, which is normal but shitty" Chales Bukowski
"Nothing will happen, if something will not move first" Einstein
"Nothing is more profound than what appears on the surface" Hegel
"What's important is to remember. Forgetting is even more important" Rilke
"If you want something to happen you must first set the stage" Stanislavski
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" Albert Einstein
"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel" Horace Walpole
"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all" Leo Rosten
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor" Soren Kierkegaard
"I never pay any attention to anyone's PRAISE or BLAME, I simply follow my own feelings" Mozart
"First, God created fools just for practice. Then, He created the school board" Mark Twain