For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

Music is the breath of being.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.