To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

A good intention feeds no one.

He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

I value very much the time before the show, when there is nothing else but to concentrate on the show, and it's just purely design.

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.