Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.

Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.