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

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

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.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

London is a roost for every bird.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

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.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.