Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

We read the future by the past.

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

Having something to fight for will make us stronger than anything they can throw at us.

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

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