A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

I feel Anglo-American.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

The honor of a nation is its life.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.