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

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.

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.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.