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

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

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

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 its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

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

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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.‘

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

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

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

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

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

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

Lord, help my poor soul.

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.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

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

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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.

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.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

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.

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

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

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

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

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.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

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.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.