Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

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.

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

You can't deny somebody that's a hard worker. You can't deny somebody that just digs down as deep as they can.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.