The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

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.

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.

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.

God has given all of us both the mind and the heart. And He fully expects us to use them

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.