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

‚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.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

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.

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.

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

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.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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?

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

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

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

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

Lord, help my poor soul.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

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.

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.

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

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

People love conspiracy theories.

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.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

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.

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.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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?

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.