If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.

Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness. Come out into the vivacious light of the day where all the glory resides.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.

You’re actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.