No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.

What are the odds and did you know what's really happening around us!?

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.

The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.